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' ".T-OADUTOHER TEMPLE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE. l

Letters Patent No,`97,895, dated December llgghh* IMPRCIV'LEIMENT` IN LOOM-TEMPLE.

Th`e Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all persons to whom these `presents may come: Be it known that I, WAnnEN'WHITNnY DUTOHER,

4oflIopedale, of the county of Worcester, of the State loom-templaa mechanism for holdingT baclt the slide thereof', when retracted within. its stand; `and further-v more, I so make the catch, constituting snchadditional mechanism, or apart thereof, that `while in 'use it shall not only perform the function ot' a catch, but shall seite as a cover "for guard,.to prevent oil from being `thrown from the stops upon the cloth that may be in the` process of beingwoven.

By my arrangement :or applicationfof the catch, it is used, with the backstop, in affecting the holding of the temple retracted.

` The object of holding the temple retracted is to enable the weaver' to .remove `from th warp any filling which may have been improperly introduced therein.

It occasionallyhappens that it becomes desirable to retract the temple, for purposes; well known to weavers, such retraction andholdin'g back having generally been accomplished by the weaver.

Vl1`urthermorc,,when the tenkiple', during its advance,

after a beat of the lay `carries the back-stop against the front stopoil, which may get between the two, i

will be liable to be spirted or thrown upon the cloth, to the detriment or damage thereof.

, My catch is constructed to extend over lthe stops,

and about in a manner to stop any such oil so rejected, v and prevent it from falling on the cloth adjacent to the stand. v In the drawingsy A denotes the temple-roller and case, which is of the usual construction, and is to carry orcontain a. temple-toothed roller of the ordinary kind.

them', and prevent such oil ii'om This case is attached to or supported by a slide or bar, B, sustained bya stand, G, in a manner to enable such bar to play or slide longitudinally therein.

A helical spring, I), applied to the slide and stand, serves to advance the slide, until a back-stop or shoulder, a, thereof may bring up against a forestop,'b, which, in this instance, is apart of the catch E, T he said catchE is jointed to the stand, or to standards C C, making part thereof, the joint-pinV being exhibitedv at d, it going through the standards C G and the fore-stop t.

Lips f j, from the catch, extend down from its sides,

and overlap opposite edges of the slider.

When the slider` is retracted, in manner as shown in Figure 5, which 1is a longitudinal section ot' the temple, the catch E is to be forced downward, so as to force its rear end below 'the top of theback-stop a, which being brought 'up against the catch, will cause the'temple to be held in its retracted position.

By raising the catch to its horizontal position, the temple will be set free, and will be advanced by the spring, until the back-stop may bring up against the fore-stop. V

I claim, as my invention, the following, viz:

In combination with the temple, a mechanism, substantially as described, for holding back the slide, when retracted in the stand Also, the arrangement Vof the catch E, and its application to the templeyso as to operate with the backstop tt, in manner and for the purpose as set forth.

' Also, the catch E, so constructed, that when in use it shall not only perform the function of a-catch, or operate with the back-stopte, as set forth, but shall act as an intercepter of any oil which may be ejected from either or bot-h the stops, or the slide between getting upon Ithe cloth carried by the-temple'.

WARREN WHITNEY DU'IGHER.

Witnesses l R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER. 

